# Deployment and Monitoring

There are multiple different sections in the documentation to help you get started with operating a Pinot cluster. If you are new to Pinot, please start with the basics.

{% content-ref url="../basics/concepts" %}
[concepts](https://docs.pinot.apache.org/release-0.12.0/basics/concepts)
{% endcontent-ref %}

{% content-ref url="../basics/architecture" %}
[architecture](https://docs.pinot.apache.org/release-0.12.0/basics/architecture)
{% endcontent-ref %}

To get started with operating a Pinot cluster, first please look at the tutorials in [Getting Started](https://docs.pinot.apache.org/release-0.12.0/basics/getting-started) on how to run a basic pinot cluster in various environments.

{% content-ref url="../basics/getting-started/running-pinot-locally" %}
[running-pinot-locally](https://docs.pinot.apache.org/release-0.12.0/basics/getting-started/running-pinot-locally)
{% endcontent-ref %}

{% content-ref url="../basics/getting-started/kubernetes-quickstart" %}
[kubernetes-quickstart](https://docs.pinot.apache.org/release-0.12.0/basics/getting-started/kubernetes-quickstart)
{% endcontent-ref %}

You can then proceed to the more advanced Pinot setup in production environment.

{% content-ref url="tutorials/running-pinot-in-production" %}
[running-pinot-in-production](https://docs.pinot.apache.org/release-0.12.0/operators/tutorials/running-pinot-in-production)
{% endcontent-ref %}

### Related blog posts

Here are some related blog posts from the Apache Pinot community. You can find all of our blog posts on our [developer blog on Medium](https://medium.com/apache-pinot-developer-blog).

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**Monitoring Apache Pinot with JMX, Prometheus and Grafana**](https://medium.com/apache-pinot-developer-blog/monitoring-apache-pinot-99034050c1a5)

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[**Achieving 99th percentile latency SLA using Apache Pinot**](https://medium.com/apache-pinot-developer-blog/achieving-99th-percentile-latency-sla-using-apache-pinot-2ba4ce1d9eff)